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A Day in my Life, written by Adrian Calma

My everyday routine is one of the most important areas of my life. It changed rapidly due to the virus infecting millions of people around the world, thus changing the circle of life for us.. Being safe is my family’s most important saying. They will always check our family members if they are properly sanitized before going out and coming back. Things are much different than they used to be. I definitely feel the panic from what will I be in the future because of this pandemic, but I will do my very best to be successful for my family. As time go by I feel the panic from our governments, who have put laws in place to hopefully end this virus in the near future. I think we can slowly end this pandemic but because of the people who are not paying attention or just ignoring it because they “know better” the policies made by our leaders, it makes our life way harder than it should be.

My life has drastically changed. I was once a normal senior high school student coming to school always late even though my house is not that far but it was a routine for me, I can never wake up earlier then my family, I was always completing a healthy sleeping routine but all that change when this pandemic started

March was our last month of class before the pandemic. Inside the classrooms, when they announced that they were cancelling classes I was so happy because there were no classes for two whole weeks, I played video games and stayed up countles of hours, We were about to graduate and then covid arrive. This was not how I was planning to spend my vacation. I wanted to properly graduate with my girlfriend and friends and enjoy my reward just like the normal teens did before. After a year passed, I started to think about my future. I woke up and check my phone if I needed to attend any online school, or I will do my activities and then I will eat my breakfast with my family or alone cause they already have breakfast. I would normally eat around 8 am. My routine is extremely repetitive, and I have been doing this for years before covid even started. But this time, I am just at home not really doing much hard work. At around 10:30 am, I will prepare to cook rice in the rice cooker and also wash the dishes. I will wait for my mom to tell me what are we going to eat for lunch and would voluntarily buy foods from a cafeteria near the church or just buy the ingredients and cooked it at home. Then after eating, I will clean the table to lessen the dirt in our house, wash the dishes again, and will check if I have a class to attend. Later, I will again cook rice for our family including the dogs and will buy again our dinner. Our most common food for the night is fried chicken made by a friend we’ve known for since I was a child. It was still the same taste I remembered growing up here at my hometown. And lastly to end the day, I will eat dinner, wash the dishes again, feed our dogs and close the doors. I will talk to my girlfriend and asked her about her day and she would do it to me too. I understand that we may have to do this for a long time, it is hard for us normal citizens to adjust with the new normal, but I will fully commit to do so in hopes that we can return to normal soon.

I think the biggest challenge for me has been realizing that I might never go to outside in the real world by not wearing any protective gear. It is hard that I must make a college decision in a time like this, but I also understand that there are many people out there who are not in the same position I am at the moment, I always think that we are lucky to eat every day, sleep comfortably, so I am grateful for my opportunities and my blessings.

I believe that the future is uncertain going forward. I always ask myself if things will ever go back to what I consider “normal”. I hope that it will, and I hope that I will get the opportunity to do the things I want to do in my life. I think that there is something to be learned, but I just do not know what it is yet. I hope we can fight this together and come out stronger.